Footnote 1 – What’s a Pleasing Sacrifice?

These inscriptions were found on large storage pots at a desert outpost in the Sinai named Kuntillet Ajrud. These texts also mention Yahweh in conjunction with a female divine counterpart, Asherah. See Ze’ev Meshel, “Did Yahweh Have a Consort?” Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1979; and Ruth Hestrin, “Understanding Asherah—Exploring Semitic Iconography,” Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1991.